Description

We want to create the fastest, the most accurate and the most comfortable touchscreen keyboard in the World.

Why Keybee

In 1863 Christopher Sholes wanted to fix the jams on typewriters. For this reason he moved to the opposite the most frequent letters and letter-pairs to improve typing with both hands. The qwerty keyboard was invented.

The success of qwerty was so huge that the same layout is still used today as input device on computer keyboard.

In 2007 the mobile world became touch friendly. Smartphones and tablets became our daily pocket computer and the touchscreen was introduced to use the phone with one hand.

But typing on a physical keyboard and on a touchscreen is not the same: they use different number of fingers to type and different gestures like swipe. So sharing the same qwerty layout is not efficient.

This incompatibility created on qwerty touchscreens an usability problem: the device was adapted to the keyboard.

What qwerty brings on touchscreen:1 - limited key size and useless space between keys2 - no swipe friendly: slow typing because of the floating between the borders3 - no ergonomics and unnatural typing: we are forced to type with two hands or switch the phone to landscape

To fix this problem the keyboard should be adapted to the device. This is the reason of Keybee.

What Keybee brings on touchscreen:1 - hexagonal structure: the most space efficient structure in Nature which improves the key size in the same device area up to 50% and save background area on bigger screens.2 - more connections between letters and letter-pairs: improves the typing speed up to 50% and swipe friendly3 - ergonomics: typing in a natural way with one finger starting from the center of the screen that means no need two hands for typing.

Thoughts from the founder

The Qwerty on touchscreen is like using a steering wheel on a bicycle: just because I can turn it doesn’t mean that the controller should be like this. A bicycle needs a controller designed for it: the handlebar. A touchscreen needs a keyboard designed for it: Keybee.

I want to give Keybee for free because the keyboard is the basic human - device interaction and because it is universal. It involves all People in the World, no matter the age they have, the language they speak or the place they live. And all the greatest tech innovations are free.

I would like to thank all the Keybee users who gave me the strength to continue this project even without external investments through their messages and reviews.

Marco Papalia.

My review

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Reviews

3.8

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Wm Hargrave

It seems to be crashing at times im going to give it a little while longer.

Jonathan Roberts

Quite hard to get used to. Hard to find symbols quickly i.e. The fullstop. Auto-prediction doesn't seem to work either. I will look for future updates

Nathan Pettigrew

Keyboard typed all the letters I was swiping across that weren't part of the word I wanted no matter how fast or slow I went. Also couldn't select the predicted words. LG G3.

S.R. Aichinger

Layout is less intuitive than QWERTY.

Roberto Duglio

Me liking this :))

Марио Георгиев

Missing the Bulgarian / Cyrillic letters though and have to switch often. Otherwise love the idea!

User reviews

Wm Hargrave July 12, 2017

It seems to be crashing at times im going to give it a little while longer.

You can move the full stop to the main keyboard. Autoprediction is not available yet. You can use autocorrection if you have the Google spell checker. There is a bug currently on the suggested words. We are working on it.

Nathan Pettigrew July 10, 2017

Keyboard typed all the letters I was swiping across that weren't part of the word I wanted no matter how fast or slow I went. Also couldn't select the predicted words. LG G3.

Thank you for your feedback. We use a different approach than MessagEase. Mainly we focus on clean design (only one letter for each key = less confusion) and no hidden keys (you print what you tap = you don't need an explanation to type a letter!). This approach reduces a lot the learning curve.

June 14, 2017

I like the keyboard itself. I am just requesting, if possible that we can change the keyboard layout that is much similar of that QWERTY layout. Or just the order of organization of the default keyboard. Thank you. And also, the keys has enough size for large fingers.

Worthy This release is much improved. The key layout appears to be a little different. It is difficult to tell if the layout is designed for left or right hand. If one or the other is in mind, maybe add a layout horizontal flip option.

Very promising keyboard app...Great job Just downloaded it today...looking for a keyboard for my starmobile diamond v3 smartphone which has a defect on the left hand side where the q and 1 is position. This app solve my problem in an awesome way, now i can use the q and 1 when typing by one hand. Just need to adapt on the new lay-out of the keys and by the ways, it needs an enter key on the letter side part. i give you 4 star for this, but if missing enter key is updated..will change it to 5 star. Great app for smartphones and tablets....GREAT JOB!.......AWESOME

Thank you..the enter key is positioned in the numeric keyboard (123) abowe the space key. This because is not a common key and because often is already visible on website forms. Maybe an option to put it in the dot key position could be a solution.
The project is still in beta, I would like to make great improvements as soon as possible.

Viraj July 4, 2015

Good but.. It's entirely new so does take some time to learn. However the swipe feature has misleading name. And the enter key is hidden in numeric keyboard.😦😦😦 Still not bad for a beta. UI can be more responsive and beautiful(white theme is terrible), but that's for the laters. Best of luck

Interesting concept Great alternative keyboard without dictionary. Recommended especially for users who like to play word search game like scramble and ruzzle. Innovative new and fun way of typing. When alignment of keys seems off, setting the key size to BIG should fix it.